After his wife of forty-one years died of cancer, Irvin Peckham needed to get in touch with himself rather than find himself through his relationship with others. He took Marianne Moore's line, "the cure for loneliness is solitude," to heart. Viajando sin Mapas narrates the experience of this seventy-three-year-old gringo driving with his newly rescued pit bull mix from New Jersey to the end of the road in Panama. Readers will...